April 17, 2023

Movies - Watched (Movies)

Suzume

Theater:
Rating:

Wanted to catch this one in theaters. I knew it was going to make me cry and it did! With just a date and a sound! Beautiful as always, not as good as Your Name but I liked it better than Weathering With You.

Time Spent: 2 hours 10 minutes


March 1, 2023

Media - Watched

Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina - Season 1 ( 12 episodes)

This one was interesting. Really nice animation, weird plot and pacing, sometimes incredibly stupid, sometimes incredibly dark. But definitely unique from other shows. And then used the last episode to answer all the criticism from the first 11.

Time Spent: 22 days 9 hours 54 minutes


January 18, 2023

Media - Watched

Winter 2023 Anime First Episode No Context Binge

I hadn't done this in a while so time to watch the first episode of all the new anime without knowing anything about them. SO MANY ISEKAIS

Ningen Fushin: Adventurers Who Don't Believe in Humanity Will Save the World - Suprisingly NOT an isekai but the MC gets fried from the party trope and makes a party of other fired/depressed peeps. I like the premise but didn't really like any of the characters.

TECHNOROID OVERMIND - Classic robot idols, well they randomly decide to become idols. I like that it's in the near future and not too crazy but also what even is this.

The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady - Isekai - I like the MC here though even if she is creeping on the other lead. Theres no game UI element and she seems to just be using her knowledge to get by in the other world without magic.

BUDDY DADDIES - Spy x 2 daddies? In modern Japan though.

Chillin' in My 30s after Getting Fired from the Demon King's Army - Another getting fired premise - I don't like the creeping on the boob girl aspect.

Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for my Retirement - Isekai but different rules for once! And she can teleport back and forth between worlds. But then second episode went way into guns? Not sure if I'll keep up with this one but at least they are doing something different.

The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule the World - Overpowered MC - I like the worldbuilding but harembuilding is also happening. There's a bunch of sillyness in this one too so might end up actually watching it all.

THE MISFIT OF DEMON KING ACADEMY - LOL overpowered MC - Season 2 of this starts this season but I never watched the first season and binged it. LOL what a MC. It's ridiculous but also had good characters and completely overpowered MC just wants friends and family. Hope that season 2 lives up to season 1.

BY THE GRACE OF THE GODS - Isekai and Season 2 - I watched the first episode of this, kind of weirded out buy old dude in 8 year olds body situation especially when theres a little girl for him to date? Also slime farming.

Handyman Saitou in another world - Isekai, silly premise but its a from a 4 panel comic so a bunch of shorts per episode.

Sugar Apple Fairy Tale - Pretty and fairy slaves - Love the art style, always questionable when they do slavery worlds but this one doesn't seem to go the routes of just buying slaves and then slavery isn't mentioned again. Maybe it will actually be adressed.

Revenger - End of samurai period + Nagasaki - This one is interesting because I was just there but also a setting I haven't seen before in anime. Not sure if I'll watch more but interesting characters.

The tale of outcasts - demons in London with angst - This one is interesting, I like the main characters and I'm curious to see where it will go.

The Reincarnation Of The Strongest Exorcist In Another World - Isekai and they are OP - I like the traditional Japanese spirit stuff going on, curious to see what will happen at magic school.

BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense. - Playing a video came + overpowered MC - I think season 2 is airing or not sure how this one got in but it's cute and I like the sillyness of the MC causing the gamedevs strife with the weird playstyle.

Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire - Overpowered MC /Reincarnation - Not sure if this is isekaiy but I don't like that its like a 90 year old man in a young girls body. Maybe it will redeem itself but ehhh.

Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skills - Isekai - LOL quality skill of online grocery. I like how this one is set up. Guess this genre really can be infinite if they just write it well.

Time Spent: 1 days


January 16, 2023

Media - Watched

In the Land of Leadale - Episode 1 - 12

Recommended from the Bofuri comments for chill female MC isekais. I liked the premise and the slice of lifeness but some of MC's actions and choices were weird. I think this is getting season 2 but not sure if I want to watch it. Sudden daughter adoption and housebuilding seemed like a weird turn.

Time Spent: 3 hours 46 minutes


November 4, 2022

Movies - Watched (Movies)

One Piece Red

Theater:
Rating:

It was snowing pretty heavily but glad I still went, what a fun One Piece movie. They did some different stuff with animation which was fun to see and always a fan of idol plot lines. So much music was in it too! It has a wide US release instead of like 2 showings like usual so I am curious how it will do.

Time Spent: 2 hours 15 minutes


October 12, 2022

Media - Watched

Young the Giant at Red Rocks

  1. American Bollywood
  2. Wake Up
  3. Something to Believe In
  4. Apartment
  5. Guardian Angel
  6. My Way
  7. Cough Syrup
  8. The Walk Home
  9. Call Me Back
  10. Dollar $tore
  11. Cult of Personality
  12. Heat of the Summer
  13. Nothing's Over
  14. Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell cover)
  15. Tonight
  16. Tightrope
  17. My Body
  18. Encore:
  19. Superposition
  20. Dancing In The Rain
  21. Mind Over Matter
  22. Silvertongue (in lower key)

What a great concert, they were amazing live and so many instruments!!! Found new songs I love by them also rediscovered some I had loved and had been lost (Nothing's Over)

Time Spent: 5 hours 30 minutes


September 30, 2022

Media - Watched

My Chemical Romance at Ball Arena (PEPSI CENTER)

  1. The Foundations of Decay
  2. House of Wolves
  3. I'm Not Okay (I Promise)
  4. Give 'Em Hell, Kid
  5. The Ghost of You
  6. Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)
  7. Planetary (GO!)
  8. It's Not a Fashion Statement, It's a Fucking Deathwish
  9. Welcome to the Black Parade
  10. Teenagers
  11. Mama
  12. Cemetery Drive
  13. Vampires Will Never Hurt You
  14. S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W
  15. Famous Last Words
  16. Helena
  17. Encore:
  18. Headfirst for Halos
  19. The Kids From Yesterday

Time Spent: 5 hours 59 minutes


September 26, 2022

Media - Watched

The Killers at Turning Stone with Johnny Marr

  1. Sam's Town
  2. Enterlude
  3. Mr. Brightside
  4. The Way It Was
  5. Smile Like You Mean It
  6. Shot at the Night
  7. Blowback
  8. Human
  9. Spaceman
  10. Somebody Told Me
  11. boy
  12. Runaway Horses
  13. Runaways
  14. Read My Mind
  15. Dying Breed
  16. Caution (With “Rut” segue)
  17. In the Car Outside (Brandon took $40 from fan to play)
  18. All These Things That I've Done
  19. Encore:
  20. The Man
  21. There Is a Light That Never Goes Out (The Smiths cover) (with Johnny Marr)
  22. When You Were Young (with Johnny Marr)

Time Spent: 2 hours


September 5, 2022

Media - Watched

Mob (whats the actual name)

Watching the first episode of this to see how it was and ended up binging the whole season. MC was good and nice to see a twist like this on an isekai. It was fun too that it wasn't just straight up generic magic world and had robots and airships too.

Time Spent: 11 hours


June 18, 2022

Media - Watched

For All Mankind Season 1

I completed something!

Artemis 1 launches tomorrow (hopefully) so figured I should at least finish season one before that

Watching launches is stressful but the character development and alternate history building are great. Let's see how long it takes me to watch season 2

Time Spent: 2 months 10 days 22 hours 51 minutes


January 25, 2022

Movies - Watched (Movies)

Belle (竜とそばかすの姫)

Theater:
Rating:

Had no idea about this until a figure showed up on amiami. Then that it was currently airing in the US. Then I thought it was only in Denver but nope it was at the less fancy Cinemark.

Unique story. I cried, mask was soaked. Suzu and her friend were great.

Time Spent: 2 hours 5 minutes


January 2, 2022

Media - Read

One Piece Catchup

Got caught up on one piece, started at chapter 1000 and ended with the current one (1035)

The fighting was really dragging on but then dinosaur antics and quality got me interested again. Can't wait to see where Oda is going with the powerups and Queen just WHAT. So that's how dinosaurs work.

Time Spent: 2 hours


August 6, 2021

Language - Japanese

金曜日

ロックタンブラーを空けました。

Time Spent: 39 minutes


August 3, 2021

Language - Japanese

火曜日

仕事が難しかったです。天気が良かったです。

Time Spent: 9 minutes


August 2, 2021

Language - Japanese

勉強

晩御飯にアイスサンドを食べました。

Time Spent: 9 minutes


April 10, 2021

Media - Watched

DeVotchKa - Garden Concert Series

This was an outdoor event put on by Off The Hook Arts and just really nice to go to a concert again! Let's try and remember the songs, they are definitely out of order because I'm just listening to them on Spotify to find them.

  1. Queen of the Surface Streets
  2. How It Ends
  3. All the Sand in the Sea
  4. The Clockwise Witness
  5. The Enemy Guns
  6. You Love Me

Time Spent: 1 hours


February 4, 2021

Movies - Watched (Movies)

Into the Spiderverse (again)

Theater:
Rating:

Cinemark lets you rent out an entire theater fro $99 and then pick from a list of about 20 filmes (or $150 for what new movies are airing). Into the Spiderverse was an option. I chose this option

What a beautiful movie! I'm glad I got to see it again in theaters and understand more now why people buy giant tvs.

Time Spent: 2 hours 15 minutes


December 27, 2020

Media - Watched

Onyx Equinox - Episode 1-12

Did not expect to see so many intestines. It was nice to learn about a new mythology for once and the god designs were really cool. I didn't expect the last episode to be such a lead into season 2 so waiting for that now.

Time Spent: 1 days


December 19, 2020

Media - Watched

Mandalorian Season 2

Yes for badass girl team, boo for me being an idiot about lore characters. Rip the spaceship

This tweet:
Sorry to disappoint you but I refuse to say "Sebastian Stan-I AM YOUR FATHER!" (even though, in fact, I am) :p #SorryNotSorry #MySonSebastian

Time Spent: 10 hours


April 13, 2020

Programming - enstars.info

Revisiting OCR and Bad Translations

With the updated games and new story, thought some hilarious translations might make the content more readable.

Spent some time remembering how I did anything. I have one gimp macro that resizes the screenshots for the display images. This expects the title slide to be the first slide. Also have to lpad the first ten images with 0s. Those get renamed 1_01.jpg and the uploaded to images/translations.

Using the same raw source, there are two other gimp macros. One to cut the right and top side of the image off. And then a second one to cut the left and bottom off. Unfortunately gimp doesn't let you do two crops in one macro. The star is still there and causing noise.

There is then the translate.js node script. My google API credit ran out but it let me make calls no problem, shouldn't cost more than $1.

Each time the script is run, need to update the source images, destination name, and how many slides per chapter. This then spits out the JSON.

I should break the script into two, one with translate and one without to be more useful to others.

Got chapter 3 all set up though, only 127 more to go of the (so far) released chapters. At least the first event is only 9 and scout only 8!

Time Spent: 2 hours


March 26, 2020

Programming - DO Server

Cleaning Up syslog

After dealing with rouge logs filling up my server's space, let's clean up syslog.

Starting Fresh

I wanted to clean out what was in there and watch new stuff coming in as I turned off extra logging. I truncated the file with:

truncate -s 0 syslog

Stopping certbot from renewing old domains

I had two domains that were expired and removed from nginx, but I never removed them from certbot.

certbot certificates
lists all the certificates certbot is running. Then to delete a specific one:

certbot delete --cert-name example.xom

Stopping ufw from logging in syslog

It already has it's own log, it doesn't need to be in here too! Go to:

/etc/rsyslog.d/20-ufw.conf
The last line is commented out, uncomment it. This will stop logging in syslog. Then restart the rsyslog service:
service rsyslog restart

Time Spent: 1 hours 23 minutes


February 26, 2020

Programming - DO Server

Moving vaulters to DO

This has been on my to do list for a while but I started getting failing lets encrypt errors and I couldn't manually regen the certificate. Googling the errors shows that you need to upgrade the underlaying versions of things so good enough reason to actually move this.

Steps:

  1. Get new Wordpress on DO
  2. Set up test url
  3. Copy over database and files
  4. Copy over plugins
  5. When parity is there, change DNS
  6. Finally delete the old site!

Time Spent: 6 minutes


February 6, 2020

Travel - Flights

DEN to NRT

Boeing 787

Nice dreamliner flight, two ladies next to me from Arizona on their 2nd flights ever! going to Thailand

Movies watched: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, John Wick, Dora the Explorer, half of some Apple documentary

I was on the right side of the plane to see Mt Fuji but it was too cloudy as we landed.

Time Spent: 12 hours 15 minutes


February 2, 2020

Media - Listened

Dolly Parton's America Episodes 1-3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-wave_feminism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_Wagoner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_ballad

Time Spent: 3 hours


February 1, 2020

Travel - Flights

SFO to DEN

United

757-300

Paid $75 to take an earlier flight, no line to check in, no line to check bag, no line at security, filled a baby bottle badly, walked up to plane and got on, no one next to me, beautiful sunset coming into Denver

Time Spent: 2 hours


January 19, 2020

Programming - DO Server

Server Maintenance

Ran

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
on both droplets, both completed happily.

Time Spent: 25 minutes


November 19, 2019

Apartment - Fostering

Bear and Babies

Bear and babies (Holly, Harriet, and Harvey) went to the shelter to be put up for adoption today. They were adorable but also extremely loud.

Pictures

Time Spent: 1 months 14 days 22 hours


December 29, 2019

Media - Watched

The Witcher (Season 1)

The time watched is wrong as I watched this in two chunks sleeping in between but otherwise close enough to an eight hour block.

I watched a bit of Jesse playing The Witcher 3 and some of the characters but otherwise really nothing going into this. I enjoyed the first couple of episodes, exposition is fun and establishing the world in different places was nice. Watching it on the computer was nice as I could just easily mute the jump scare parts which there were a bunch of but I guess the monsters were scary so it was fitting.

I liked Geralt, young Yennefer, Ciri, everyone really. Her grandma was extremely badass. There did get to be a bit too much of Yennefer in the later episodes when I really just wanted more of the others but I get they were setting up things.

I liked the continuity trick, usually I get upset when things are out of order but this didn't reveal it until the wedding scene.

Overall I liked it and will watch the next season, but more for small missions and less giant wizard battles. Although if mostly everyone is dead now maybe that solves that.

Time Spent: 8 hours


December 20, 2019

Programming - DO Server

Fixing mailgun forwarding

Thought I had set this up correctly but then gmail rejected my test email 2 days later.

Mailgun settings: Need to not use the mg. prefix
All of the other ones have it so not sure what I did there to make it work but this was a quick fix

DO Network: Put in the relevant Mailgun DNS

Mailgun Receiving Routes: need to set one up to forward the email address just set up to gmail

Optional: Sending from the address at gmail: this is where the SMTP settings come into play

Time Spent: 1 hours 53 minutes


December 20, 2019

Movies - Watched (Movies)

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Theater:
Rating:

I tried to get tickets to get this opening weekend to repeat my super enthusiastic audience Frozen 2 experience but by the time I looked on the 11th they were already sold out. The first showing at a reasonable time (not 8am) with a not front row seat was 12 on Sunday. There was one person in a cloak but otherwise the theater was sadly silent.

Trailers were enjoyable but I had already seen all of them except for Black Widow. The Tenet one was fun to see on the giant screen though.

Movie was okay, I didn't get the nostalgia connections and fanservice and that seemed to be what the movie was mainly about. The new droid was cute but apparently D-0 not Dio. Also needed more screen time. It was interesting what they did with Kylo Ren and I was curious how this universe would deal with big bad turning good but then he instantly died so so much for that.

Seeing the table from the Millennium Falcon in the chess scene was fun as I had just sat at that table at Disney not understanding its significance. That whole area of the park had more world building than this movie. Probably because you were already supposed to know the universe. But it would have been fun for every random location they went to to have a couple extra worldbuildery stuff. Even the silly giant name of the place on a establishing shot that other movies do would have been helpful for me to remember what planet was what.

I did read that The Mandalorian was more world builderly so maybe time to watch that,

Time Spent: 3 hours


December 6, 2019

Movies - Watched (Movies)

Mary and the Witch's Flower

Theater:
Rating:

Was looking for something short to watch while waiting for Bear to clean up her new babies and found this! I had seen ads for it sometime ago, or maybe a kickstarter? Anyway the Ghibli style character design (maybe it was the same character designer?) was intriguing.

It started off slow for me but the characters grew on me especially the broom. Always unexpected body horror in works with young protagonists. Animation was weird at times, not as fluid as I thought it should be.

Always interesting to when they set a film not in Japan but then have them do very Japanese things, like the transfer student introduction :)

Time Spent: 13 hours 30 minutes


December 3, 2019

Programming - DO Server

WordPress Shenanigans 5.6 to 7.2

This isn't technically on DO but my last website on nearlyfreespeech.

Looking at vaulters, it's TLS had expired. It had been warning me nightly but I thought the issue was on nearlyfreespeech's end. I first tried switching servers as vaulters was on an deprecated one. This didn't fix it and also killed PHP 5.6. I went to switch back but the oldest server didn't have 5.6.

To fix the TLS, I went into the CLI and just re-ran the Let's Encyrpt certificate generation. That worked and the TLS was fixed within ~30 seconds.

Now to fix the PHP version issue. The main page would load but the login page had lot's of PHP errors. I had never upgraded the site as the upgrader would always error out on me.

I downloaded a new version of wordpress on CLI and put it in a folder new. I figured I could copy over the site into /new and then switch it over to the live site once it was working. Wordpress installed into /new/wordpress so I was copying the files from /wordpress up into /new. Instead I copied into / , overwriting the original files. D:

Little did I know, this is exactly what I needed to do! It fixed the PHP errors and the login page loaded! I logged in and the menu was chaos but otherwise looked okay. I tried to redo the upgrade to grab the missing files in the Wordpress UI but I kept getting the error. I then tried it from the command line and it told me I was already up to date. Knowing some files were missing, I renamed wp-config folder and copied over everything from /new. That didn't fix the menu. I then did the same steps for wp-includes, and this fixed it!

It does look like all the installed plugins got disabled and the theme lost it's custom options though.

Time Spent: 1 hours 18 minutes


November 11, 2019

Programming - DO Server

everythingelse is being really cachey

This has been going on since at least June. PHP needs to be restarted to get any changes to show up. Database stuff is fine. Wordpress sites have a lot of issues. enstars sever does not have this issue

Some how I had set opcache.validate_timestamps=0 in /etc/php/7.1/fpm/php.ini. I commented that back out to match enstars and actually got an error message on Wordpress!

Next steps:

Time Spent: 3 hours 34 minutes


October 17, 2019

Programming - Local Enviornment

Replicating Macbook's Vagrant Enviornment on Pancake (Window's Box)

It looks like I started doing this sometime in the past. The Homestead repo is there as well as the development domains in the hosts file. Not working when I try vagrant up though

Time Spent: 7 minutes


September 8, 2019

Programming - Weather Station

Weather Station Working!!!!

Woo got it working today and feeding data to this page!

Using the Huzzah and not the Arduino at all

Getting temp, humidity, and pressure

Anemometer needs a separate setup as it needs a 9V Vin and outputs up to 2V analog which Huzzah cannot handle

Time Spent: 10 hours 27 minutes


September 7, 2019

Programming - Weather Station

Setting up Https

My original setup was trying to reach this website's endpoint which is over https.

I tried to create some crazy work between but was encouraged to just do it the right way

The https library for the huzzah? wasn't bad at all and I was able to get it working.

[flesh this out]

Hunting down a https library

Pulling the needed code out of a more complicated example

Figuring out the sha

Success!

[add code here]

Time Spent: 2 hours


August 21, 2019

Programming - Weather Station

Create Endpoint to Add Data To Database

Built a quick GET endpoint to put data into the database from a URL with the parameters:

Time Spent: 20 minutes


August 11, 2019

Media - Listened

Rachel Maddow Presents Bag Man

Listened during community day, I think Raltz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Agnew

Time Spent: 3 hours


July 30, 2019

Programming - Weather Station

Test Program on the Adafruit HUZZAH ESP8266 breakout

Following this tutorial https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-huzzah-esp8266-breakout/using-arduino-ide

I got the blinking light program to work but only after I pulled the USB out of the computer. I tried the same approach with the wifi test and there is no result in the serial monitor.

Time Spent: 1 hours 57 minutes


July 16, 2019

Media - Watched

Lord Huron at Beak & Skiff Apple Orchard

  1. Love Like Ghosts
  2. Meet Me in the Woods
  3. Ancient Names, Pt. I
  4. Dead Man's Hand
  5. Back From the Edge
  6. Time to Run
  7. Hurricane (Johnnie's Theme)
  8. The World Ender
  9. The Ghost on the Shore
  10. She Lit a Fire
  11. (Extended Outro)
  12. Wait by the River
  13. The Birds Are Singing at Night
  14. Lost in Time and Space
  15. Never Ever
  16. Secret of Life
  17. Emerald Star
  18. The Yawning Grave
  19. Way Out There
  20. When the Night Is Over
  21. La Belle Fleur Sauvage
  22. Fool for Love
  23. Ancient Names, Pt. II
  24. Encore:
  25. Ends of the Earth
  26. The Night We Met
  27. Time Spent: 6 hours 30 minutes


July 13, 2019

Collections - rocks

Gemworld 2019 - Syracuse, NY

Time Spent: 3 hours


July 11, 2019

Media - Watched

Weird Al No Strings Attached Tour - Syracuse, NY

    Orchestra Warm-Up
  1. The Raiders March
  2. Theme From Superman
  3. Star Wars: The Throne Room and End Credits
  4. Fun Zone
  5. I Lost on Jeopardy / I Love Rocky Road / Like a Surgeon
  6. The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota
  7. Word Crimes
  8. You Don't Love Me Anymore
  9. Jurassic Park
  10. Don't Download This Song
  11. Weasel Stomping Day
  12. Tacky
  13. Harvey the Wonder Hamster
  14. Jackson Park Express
  15. Smells Like Nirvana
  16. Dare to Be Stupid
  17. White & Nerdy
  18. Amish Paradise (with James Brown-style Band Introductions)
  19. Encore:
  20. The Saga Begins
  21. Yoda

Time Spent: 2 hours 30 minutes


July 8, 2019

Movies - Watched (Movies)

Spiderman Far From Home

Theater:
Rating:

Ah the old Oswego Cinema 7. Bathrooms are still unchanged.
Movie was enjoyable, quality highschool tribute at the beginning. The Comic Sans! It was a good follow up to End Game too to explain what was happening with the rest of the world after that movie.

Time Spent: 2 hours


May 6, 2019

Programming - Weekly Log

2019 Week 19

Monday 2019-05-06

Tuesday2019-05-07

Time Spent: 6 days


May 7, 2019

Collections - rocks

Status

Went to add birthday rock to the database aaand I did never move anything over from christineastone.

Need to:

>

Time Spent: 5 minutes


April 22, 2019

Programming - Weekly Log

Week 17 2019

Time Spent: 7 days


April 1, 2019

Programming - Weekly Log

2019 Week 14

2019-04-01

2019-04-02

2019-04-03

Time Spent: 6 days


March 25, 2019

Programming - Weekly Log

2019 Week 13 - March 25 to March 31

2019-03-27

2019-03-29

2019-03-30

Time Spent: 6 days


March 21, 2019

Media - Watched

Kemurikusa

Reminded me of Kemono friends with the resurrections besides the animation style. I thought it was odd the translators chose to have Wakaba say he was human when he was saying 人 in Japanese. I don't think someone saying "I'm a person" is an odd response. Then he wasn't human later on? Was he a plant? Who wasn't a plant? Who was he building plant buildings and mountains for?

I liked all the sisters, I wish the older ones got more screen time as they were more fun. Shiro was a good bug robot and I am glad he made it to the end.

More exposition would be nice but I am also okay with just not having any. Better than giant exposition dumps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemurikusa

Time Spent: 8 days 2 hours


March 14, 2019

Programming - enstars.info

Laravel error email stopped working

OK SO, it was using env() to read the email from the .env file BUT this doesn't work when things are cached which usually happens on production

SO I created a new config file enstars.php and created a mail address in there that reads from the .env file, this way even the cached ones know it

it is sending the emails out i see them in mailgun but only one has shown up in my mailbox so far??? Maybe this is some gmail rate limiting thing? cause one worked the next day

Time Spent: 1 days 4 hours 40 minutes


February 21, 2019

Programming - Local Enviornment

phpmyadmin just says "No input file specified."

I don't think I did anything so why is this showing this.

I did break it when I

 rm -rf *
d my home directory. phpMyAdmin was living in the Code directory I deleted. I redownloaded it and followed the steps here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23788096/how-to-setup-phpmyadmin-on-a-laravel-homestead-box but it is not working still.

Time Spent: 1 hours 9 minutes


August 10, 2018

Programming - ccmakesthings.com

Setting up a LEMP Digital Ocean Droplet

Create new Droplet

Log into new Droplet for initial setup

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-nginx-mysql-php-lemp-stack-in-ubuntu-16-04

Time Spent: 3 months 26 days 11 hours 46 minutes


December 2, 2018

Writing - Mariworld

Character from 7/7/15 - Mechanic Forest Lady?

[put the picture]
Found in my old enstars notebook. Giant ponytail, large weapon/wrench?. Overalls, some sort of goggles.

Time Spent: 11 minutes


November 20, 2018

Media - Watched

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

I have never watched any original She-Ra so I figured I would see how this Netflix Series was. I thought the shading on the face was a bit weird and Catra's overall personality was grating to me, but she was probably meant to be that way.

The world building was a bit empty as the world, Bright Moon had like 4 people living in it, why was it so hard to capture?

Robot Nerd Princess was cool to see, and was her hair her power? Or her hair was just alive? Lots of questions there.

Overall it was alright, it would be nice to see some more world building in the second series.

The original She-ra was on Netflix too so I watched the first episode. HOW RIDICULOUS ARE THESE OLD CARTOONS???? Just everything about Adam/He-man. And the cat. And its named Cringer? And what is Bow's outfit even supposed to be. AND THE VOICES. I didn't watch episode two.

Time Spent: 7 days


November 19, 2018

Programming - Weekly Log

2018 Week 47 - November 19 to November 25

2018-11-20

2018-11-25

Time Spent: 6 days 23 hours 59 minutes


November 25, 2018

Media - Read

Sand, Wind, & Water - Lake Ontario Sand Dune Info Packet

Online Link
Local Link

Local Marsh Species

Dune Species

Woodland Species

More Resources

Time Spent: 30 minutes


November 20, 2018

Writing - Figure Rant Articles

Status Update

Last article was from April, review something!

Time Spent: 1 minutes


November 20, 2018

Programming - Enstars Bad Translations

Status Update

I have a node js script (that isn't up to date on github) that is ripping text out of screenshots, sending them to google translate API, and then creating a JSON file

To DO:

Time Spent:


November 20, 2018

Collections - Books

Goal

Build a database of all the books I have.

I have worked on this in different places, figure out what the status is

Time Spent: 1 minutes


November 20, 2018

Math - Learn Calculus

Goal

Go through book I bought at Arc

Time Spent: 1 minutes


November 20, 2018

Garage Kits - Charlotta

Status Update

Working on painting gold layers, probably need to buy real model kit paint?

Time Spent:


November 20, 2018

Math - Learn Trig

Goal

Go through the book I bought from ecothrift.

Time Spent: 1 minutes


November 20, 2018

Cosplay - Tyrande from Hots

Status Update

Costume is still in pieces from 1.5 years ago, can still work on this!

Time Spent: 1 minutes


November 20, 2018

Programming - figurerant.com

Status Update

Current goal of getting all past orders into a database. Detoured in adding goods and updating Laravel versions.

Time Spent: 1 minutes


November 20, 2018

Language - Japanese

Status Update

Working on Kanji Garden, reviewing Genki 1

Time Spent: 1 minutes


November 20, 2018

Collections - rocks

Status Update

Goal to add all rocks to a database with nice pictures. I don't think I moved anything to this site? there is still some on christineastone?

Time Spent: 1 minutes


November 15, 2018

Media - Watched

Gravity Falls

I have Disney XD with my youtube TV subscription and figured why not record this show so I can finally watch the whole thing! It was a good mix of sillyness and actual plot.

Time Spent: 4 days


November 12, 2018

Programming - Weekly Log

2018 Week 46 - November 12 to November 18

2018-11-18

Time Spent: 6 days 11 hours


October 21, 2018

Media - Read

Persepolis

I picked up this graphic novel at the thrift store in Pulaski for like 50 cents. Definitely would have been worth full price. I was always the Persians in Civ2 because they were blue but I knew nothing about the modern day life of people there.

Marjane had done more by the time she was 14 than I have done so far in my life.

Time Spent: 1 days


October 20, 2018

Cosplay - Dashing Scoundrel

Pant Quest

I went out today to look for some purple pants. I stopped at Target first to see what they had, I got a pair of dark purple/red? exercise pants. I then headed to Old Navy and I should have just started here as they had exactly what I was looking for. This is 4/4 with Old Navy coming through with cosplay items!

I stopped at Joann to check out the fabric, nothing matched my pants of course. I will have to figure something out!

Time Spent: 2 hours 30 minutes


October 18, 2018

Cosplay - Dashing Scoundrel

Shopping at Joann

I needed to pick up some missing paint colors so I stopped at Joann on the way back from a Women Who Code meetup in Loveland. I got the paints I needed, some strapping for the knife harness, large red feathers and a test piece of green felt.

Time Spent: 30 minutes


October 11, 2018

Cosplay - Dashing Scoundrel

Pattern Skills - First Hat is Too Small

I traced the pattern off my screen to do a quick test if hat size 49-51 would fit me, and it did! I then printed out the pattern and traced it on the foam. I cut that out and started hot gluing it together. Everything was coming together nicely so I went to try it on, anddd it doesn't fit! It's too small. D:

Come to find out that preview on my mac was printing things at 98%, thanks preview. Now to try again!

Time Spent: 1 hours


October 6, 2018

Cosplay - Dashing Scoundrel

Hat Pattern

I found a good hat making video on youtube and he had a pattern for sale for $6!

Patterns: https://www.lostwaxoz.com/shop/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDzJuwh4V6I

Time Spent: 1 hours


October 6, 2018

Media - Watched

Fall Anime 2018

I watched a bunch of first episodes of new fall anime with no idea what they going to be about.

Between the Sky and the Sea

Your typical space fishing anime with cute girls. I made it through the cat selfie montage but stopped when she accidently ended up in space. TOO MUCH.

Dakaichi

The art style made me suspicious but then the opening confirmed this would be a rapey BL show. Made it to the opening.

Double Decker

This one was surprisingly fun. Set in some weird steampunk/future America? It was silly and bright.

Goblin Slayer

Gratuitous to be gratuitous.

Jingai-san no Yome

Set up some completely ridiculous arranged marriage to a fluffy thing and boom credits. Why did space fishing get a 24 minute long show and this one gets 3 minutes. qq

Ms Vampire who lives in my neighborhood

Moe girls who meet vampire moe girls. And the opening was all about kissing? I'll never understand.

Radiant

Shonen black clover/fairy tale thing but the main character just has to be an idiot. Character designs are somewhat interesting.

Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai

Ignoring the title, this main character was not an idiot for once and it was refreshing. Maybe bakemonogatarish?

SSSS Gridman

Trigger being Trigger? The backgrounds were beautifully detailed and gratuitous beautiful animation? I'll watch a couple more.

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

Slime main character is pretty cute, I read a bunch on this story before. Seems to be well done.

Time Spent: 4 hours


October 5, 2018

Travel - counties

Visited County Map

County Map

Time Spent: 1 minutes


October 5, 2018

Programming - ccmakesthings.com

Moving WordCount UI

I finally moved the wordcount UI off of my personal site, that has been on my todo list FOREVER!

Time Spent: 32 minutes


October 1, 2018

Programming - DO Server

ccmakesthings has been moved!

FINALLY

And it's so much faster!

Time Spent: 3 days 10 hours 19 minutes


August 6, 2018

Programming - Weekly Log

2018 Week 32 - August 6 to August 12

2018-08-09

Time Spent: 6 days


July 23, 2018

Programming - Weekly Log

2018 Week 30 - July 23 to July 29

ccmake 2018-07-29

Time Spent: 6 days


July 16, 2018

Programming - Weekly Log

2018 Week 29 - July 16 to July 22

ccmakesthings.com

2018-07-21

Time Spent: 6 days


July 20, 2018

Media - Watched

Holmes of Kyoto - Episodes 1 and 2

I clicked on this thinking it would be some Kyoto based reverse harem but so far only one guy! And its low key mystery solving! The animation isn't the best but it might be interesting enough to keep watching. Learning random Kyoto facts too!

Time Spent: 41 minutes


June 17, 2018

Cosplay - Sogeking

Second Day Wearing Costume!

The costume was so nice to wear on Saturday that I wore it again on Sunday. The mask held together perfectly, while the cape had its usual cape issues. I had used up all the bandages so we stopped at the Walgreens to get some more. After a bit of a hunt we found another roll of them!

Time Spent: 7 hours


June 16, 2018

Cosplay - Sogeking

First Day Wearing Costume!!

It went really well! The sunglasses frame made it really easy to wear the mask ontop of my head when walking around.

Time Spent: 8 hours


June 15, 2018

Cosplay - Sogeking

Last Minute Costume Finishing

At the Marriott! Time to attach the nose and figure out bandages!

Time Spent: 2 hours


June 14, 2018

Cosplay - Sogeking

Last day before con!

My time was running out and if I wanted any sleep before the con I had to finish early! I finished priming and did 3 coats of yellow paint, masked out the blue stripes and created the goggles. I also painted on the red lips and blue mustache.

I didn't finish it 100% before the con but there was still tomorrow night for finishing touches!

Time Spent: 12 hours


June 13, 2018

Cosplay - Sogeking

Finishing Worbla and Priming

My time was running out! I finished attaching all the fins to the main mask with my heat gun and attached the mask firmly to the glasses with some more worbla. I then started drew out the features, cut the nose hole, and started priming with gesso. I used sharpie for the features which was a mistake as it was totally seeable through the primer.

Time Spent: 6 hours


June 12, 2018

Cosplay - Sogeking

Prototype to Worbla

Having done no work yesterday (I skillfully fell off my bike), I had to get things going today! I finished the prototype and started cutting the worbla out for the mask pieces. I also started attaching the fins to the main mask.

Time Spent: 6 hours


June 12, 2018

Cosplay - Sogeking

Costume Planning

page 39

Time Spent: 30 minutes


June 10, 2018

Cosplay - Sogeking

Dying and More Mask Protoype

My dying of the jumper went well and I got a good color brown.

I also added some features to the mask, toilet paper rolls for the eye pieces and paper to create the fins.

Time Spent: 2 hours


June 9, 2018

Cosplay - Sogeking

Start of Mask Prototype

I went and scouted out jumpers at Old Navy in the morning, they didn't have the brown one there but a blue one that was close enough!

Jumper pic

I then stopped at Joann Fabrics to look at cape materials and get some brown dye for the jumper!

That night I needed to start this costume! I created a foam template to size out on the sunglasses frame I was using as a mask base. Then I sketched out the features and makeshiftedly attached it to the frame.

Time Spent: 2 hours


June 7, 2018

Cosplay - Sogeking

Costume Planning

page 37

Time Spent: 30 minutes


May 31, 2018

Programming - enstars.info

Pulling text out of story screen shots

I looked into this project last night, and finally got a working concept tonight!

Steps of mostly failure:

  1. Look for a way to pull text from images in PHP
  2. Find stack overflow mentioning Tessarect OCR https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2024238/read-text-from-an-image-with-php
  3. Go to wrapper mentioned https://github.com/thiagoalessio/tesseract-ocr-for-php
  4. Not understanding how it worked at all, I added it to my Laravel project through composer, but that didn't work.
  5. I then downloaded it on my mac through homebrew, this took a long time
  6. Decided to move this process to my windows box with more power
  7. Now late Thursday night
  8. Install Chocolatey package manager for windows through power shell
  9. Install the recommended windows package for tesseract
  10. Try to boot up my local xampp install, its completey broken.
  11. Abandon PHP, look for node package.
  12. There is one! http://tesseract.projectnaptha.com/
  13. Create a new project folder and install it
  14. Can't remember how to create projects from scratch in node, eventually remember how to run just the file name.
  15. Download example image, run test code, ERROR! Eng not found.
  16. Google around, no luck, just look through recent github issues and bingo! https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js/issues/194
  17. Add in missing file
  18. rerun AND IT READS ENGLISH!!!
  19. Okay lets try Japanese, change language to Jpn, get language file
  20. Run and its completely garbled
  21. Move to browser as ghetto windows node shell probably can't handle Japanese font
  22. Some success but mostly garbled result!
  23. Crop picture so it's just the text
  24. Rerun - IT WORKS O M G

I can't believe I got it working! It was probably 3 hours of messing around over two nights, switching to JavaScript was the solution all along!

Next step is to start automating things, image cropping, file running, and then saving the text!

Time Spent: 2 hours 16 minutes


May 27, 2018

Movies - Watched (Movies)

Caligula - Episodes 2,3,4

Theater:
Rating:

This is interesting, I'll keep watching! I was expecting a Daganropa/999 complete mystery the entire time style plot but the world structure was revealed early on. Or they just want you to think that, I am terrible at noticing things like that!

The 4th episode about isolation though...

Time Spent: 54 minutes


May 25, 2018

Cosplay - Sogeking

Costume Design

image of my note book

Time Spent: 20 minutes


May 24, 2018

Programming - Status

2018-05-23

Time Spent: 5 minutes


May 4, 2018

Programming - Errors

A non-numeric value encountered

Broken:

$userteam->da = '';

$userteam->da + $userteam->da_2 + $userteam->da_3;

Fix:

$userteam->da = 0;
$userteam->da + $userteam->da_2 + $userteam->da_3;

Time Spent: 3 minutes


May 4, 2018

Programming - Errors

[] operator not supported for strings

After my week of broken environments, I get enstars back up and boom this error.

The PHP version of the live version is 5.6 while the new dev environment is 7.2

Old code:

$allcards = '';
 $allcards[] = $card;

Fixed Code

 $allcards = [];
 $allcards[] = $card;

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5879675/problem-with-fatal-error-operator-not-supported-for-strings-in

Time Spent: 4 minutes


May 4, 2018

Programming - ccmakesthings.com

Upgrading PHP to 7.2

It was 7.1 so 7.2 upgrade seems to have caused no issues! Excellent!

Time Spent: 2 minutes


May 4, 2018

Movies - Watched (Movies)

Avengers: Infinity War

Theater:
Rating:

I wasn't 100% sold on seeing it, I liked Thor: Ragnarok but Taika didn't direct this and I wasn't 100% sold on Black Panther, maybe 75% sold.

So glad i saw it though!

I avoided all spoilers and trailers! All I knew was:

Other than that I hadn't really theorycrafted or anything!!

I enjoyed it greatly! I enjoyed the banter between all the characters. I am sad they killed Drax, Peter, even Mantis! AND GROOT come on all the guardians?!?!

And I 100% expected bad ass bald lady to die but not Tchala!

AND to have Scarlect Witch vaporize Vision then for Thaonos just to bring him back, kill him, then kill her!!!

AND WTF RANDOM RED SKULL hahaha

AND CAPTAIN MARVEL? How is she going to fix all this???????

And what about all the people like….flying airplanes, or cars, that died mid snap, EVERYWHERe. IN THE UNIVERSE.

I hope Loki is alive cause come on Loki!

I'm glad Nebula is at least with Tony in space.

Ok whos dead:

So when everyone was drying, a girl was crying to my left and i was like man they were invested.And they cried a lot!

Then when the lights came on it was like 10 year oldish girl! I felt so bad! It'll be okay! Probably...

Time Spent: 3 hours


April 16, 2018

Programming - Weekly Log

2018 Week 16 - April 16 to April 22

figurerant.com

enstars.info

Time Spent: 6 days


April 9, 2018

Programming - Weekly Log

2018 Week 15 - April 9 to April 15

enstars.info

figurerant.com

ccmakesthings.com

Time Spent: 6 days 12 minutes


April 13, 2018

Media - Watched

Dances with the Dragons - Episode 1 and 2

Rage of Bahamuty with more politics and MCs with girlfriends?!

A ton of exposition thrown out in the first episode, but the second one wasn't as bad.

Time Spent: 1 hours


April 12, 2018

Media - Watched

Butlers X Battlers Episode 1 – Outside and Inside

Welll...its not BL? And hes a butler? And the student council president? And has magical powers? And will end up working in a butler cafe? And his little sister loves him?! Why not just be all the tropes! OH yeah time travel?

Time Spent: 20 minutes


April 8, 2018

Media - Watched

Caligula - Episode 1

Well when I saw this was called Caligula, I didn't think anything good would come of it. I saw a Crunchyroll twitter ad talking about idols taking over so I figured why not. MC has no idea what is going on and I don't either. Getting some really Serial Experiments Lain type vibe from it which I think is good. I thought it might go into the horror genre but it stayed out of it for this episode besides some screen flashes. Hopefully it won't go full horror like Sunshine did but I am okay with fucked up digital stuff!

Time Spent: 1 hours 30 minutes


April 8, 2018

Media - Watched

HINAMATSURI Episode 1 – Arrival of the Psychokinetic Girl!

Nendonow had that he really liked this on his Instagram so I figured why not try this one too! It is a really interesting setup with a chill Yakuza guy and chill Hina. AND SHE LOVES IKURA. AND THERE ARE IKURA BOWLS. I HAD NO IDEA. I LOOKED UP THE PRICE AND ITS LIKE $15 THATS NOT TOO BAD. NEW FOOD GOAL!

Also it has an interesting set up I am curious where this one will go.

Time Spent: 19 minutes


April 7, 2018

Media - Watched

GeGeGe no Kitaro (2018) Episode 2

The opening of this is great. I didn't enjoy episode 2 as much, Mana did come across as kind of useless although she did save the day. What I thought was murder vampire yokai from the opening turned out to be a cat girl. Guess I was letting Overlord influence me too much there, this is a kids show after all.

This looks like it will be a fun monster of the week type thing, maybe Mana can become useful? Yokai are always fun too.

Time Spent: 30 minutes


April 4, 2018

Media - Watched

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 20,21

Yukako Yamagishi Dreams of Cinderella

This episode was weird, I kept expecting horrible face melting but we just got chill Rohan face removing!

Yoshikage Kira Just Wants to Live Quietly, Part 1

I couldn't decide who to root for, the three idiots? The murderer? The hand?!

Always good to watch some sitcom slapstick severed hand comedy.

Time Spent: 1 hours


April 1, 2018

Media - Watched

Magical Girl Ore Episode 1 and 2

This is extremely silly. I'll watch all of it.

Time Spent: 40 minutes


April 1, 2018

Media - Watched

GeGeGe no Kitaro (2018) Episode 1 – The Day Yokai Awoke

Yokai are fun. Well animated silly yokai with tree body horror is funner! Also getting mad Nishiko-kun vibes from the Yokai in this....

Really fun theme song!

Time Spent: 30 minutes


April 1, 2018

Media - Watched

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 17,18,19

Rohan Kishibe's Adventure

Shigechi's Harvest, Part 1

Shigechi's Harvest, Part 2

Not enough Jotaro or grampa Joe, weird character development episodes? Rohan ghost one was alright, Shigechi though...didn't make any of them more likeable! I realized that Okuyasu has Billion (Oku) written on his arm...and that it means billion...and then its his name....haha!

ALSO THE HANDS

Time Spent: 1 hours 26 minutes


March 31, 2018

Media - Watched

A Place Further than the Universe - Episode 1

A lot of people were saying this was a great show so I thought I would check it out. The first episode had a Walter Mitty vibe which I really liked. Always good to be inspired to go do things! The animation was also beautiful and the backgrounds and settings made it seem like an actual place in Japan, even though I didn't see an exact city name.

Time Spent: 25 minutes


March 30, 2018

Media - Listened

The Dollop Episode 223 - The Night of Terror

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Sentinels

Women protesting IN FRONT of the WHITE HOUSE for the right to vote?! MADNESS HOW DARE THEY!

Time Spent: 1 hours


March 25, 2018

Media - Listened

The Dollop Episode 222 - Marion Zionchek

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Zioncheck

This is ridiculous. Always good when you get laws passed because of you.

Time Spent: 1 hours


March 25, 2018

Media - Listened

The Dollop Episode 220 - Tylenol Man

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders

I knew about the tampered with Tylenol but didn't realize it is still unsolved.

Time Spent: 1 hours


March 23, 2018

Collections - rocks

Fort Collins Gem and Mineral Show 2018

Time Spent: 3 hours


March 19, 2018

Media - Listened

The Dollop Episode 215 - Huey Long

Chaos in Louisiana...but he got things done?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_Long

Time Spent: 1 hours 26 minutes


March 18, 2018

Media - Listened

The Dollop Episode 216 - Catastrophe Jim

Not used to them being so recent, too much of "What year is this again?" happening! I thought it was like 1970 not 1993.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Scott_(criminal)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_of_1993

Time Spent: 1 hours


March 14, 2018

Media - Watched

Houseki no Kuni (Land of the Lustrous)

I was just planning on checking out the first episode with Antarcticite, then I was drawn in and watched them all. Why are you so likeable with your character development Phos! Considering buying the manga, or definately a quest item next Japan trip!

Time Spent: 3 hours


November 25, 2017

Movies - Watched (Movies)

Coco

Theater:
Rating:

What a lovely Pixar film, the Frozen short before it was 10 minutes tooo long though!

Location: Timberline Cinemark

Add picture of stub

Time Spent: 2 hours


November 6, 2017

Movies - Watched (Movies)

Thor Ragnarok

Theater:
Rating:

Yay Taika making such a fun and awesome movie! I want all movies to be like this!

Add in location of Anahiem Disney Walk movie theater

Time Spent: 2 hours


November 4, 2017

Media - Watched

Muse in Concert at Blizzcon

  1. Psycho (w/ Drill Sargent intro)
  2. Hysteria (w/ Interlude; AC/DC Back in Black outro)
  3. Map of the Problematique (w/ 'Who Knows Who' intro riff; RATM's 'Maggie's Farm' riff outro)
  4. Plug In Baby (Extended Outro)
  5. Stockholm Syndrome (w/ Micro Cuts outro; Reapers outro; Nirvana 'Endless Nameless' outro)
  6. Isolated System
  7. The Handler
  8. Supermassive Black Hole (w/ 'Close Encounters' riff intro)
  9. Take A Bow
  10. Munich Jam
  11. Dig Down
  12. Starlight
  13. Time Is Running Out (w/ 'House of The Rising Sun' riff intro tease)
  14. Mercy
  15. New Kind Of Bleach (The Cramps cover)
  16. Uprising (Extended Outro)
  17. Knights of Cydonia (w/ 'Man With a Harmonica' intro)

Time Spent: 2 hours 55 minutes


October 31, 2017

Media - Watched

Mayday Season 17 - Episode 4 - Explosive Proof

Found this on youtube with some crazy get around the takedown graphics happening but what a crazy story! To think they could figure out the electronics were shorting based on holes in the background noise is impressive! Also of course 150 people reported seeing a missile hitting the plane.

Time Spent: 40 minutes


October 29, 2017

Media - Read

Foamsmith 2: How to Forge Foam Weapons by Bill Doran

I have 4 days left to finish these swords and they are in the same state they were like 4 weeks ago. Typical progress. I needed to figure out how to glue/attach all these foam pieces today so I finally picked up Bill Doran's foamsmithing book to see better information on how to do that.

He nicely lists all the materials but is using saws for cleaning off the textured edge of the foam and cutting things, which is great if you have a saw. But I do not have saws!

punishedprops.com

Time Spent: 1 hours


October 29, 2017

Cosplay - Dreadblades

20 Minutes into Working With Foam and I Almost Slice Off Half My Thumb

Right. I should have known this was going to happen. I was working slowly and carefully with the foam! I knew that the knife can dull from the foam and stick and get dangerous! But doing a slow type skinning procedure seemed to be working well for removing the textured surface...until the knife went into my left thumb.

Although probably one of the worse self inflicted injuries I have gotten, it stopped bleeding pretty quickly and I was able to use a bandaid to hold it together, no stitches needed! Hopefully it scabs itself over pretty quickly and I can get back to having two thumbs again.

Time Spent: 20 minutes


October 26, 2017

Media - Watched

Yuri on Ice

Watched this again with Kater, I had never watched the last three episodes when it was airing. I kind of regret watching them, it was a better show without seeing those final epsiodes.

JJ, my cousin, how did you lose your shit that badly?!?! And Yurio's kiss and cry scene wasn't even shown?! And then it just ends like that?!?!? Like what?! For the same routines they showed over and over again, they could have cut some of that down and added 15 minutes more content to the finale that it needed. Everything just seemed so rushed!

Time Spent: 9 hours


October 25, 2017

Media - Watched

Arcade Fire in Concert

  • Everything Now - Everything Now
  • Signs of Life - Everything Now
  • Rebellion - Funeral
  • Here Comes the Night Time - Reflektor
  • No Cars Go - Neon Bible
  • Haiti - Funeral
  • Electric Blue - Everything Now
  • Put Your Money on Me - Everything Now
  • Neon Bible - Neon Bible
  • Intervention - Neon Bible
  • Modern Man - The Suburbs
  • The Suburbs - The Suburbs
  • Ready to Start - The Suburbs
  • Sprawl 2 - The Suburbs
  • Reflektor - Reflektor
  • Afterlife - Reflektor
  • Creature Comfort - Everything Now
  • Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) - Funeral
  • We Don't Deserve Love - Everything Now
  • Everything Now (cont'd) - Everything Now
  • Wake Up - Funeral
  • Time Spent: 3 hours 30 minutes


    October 13, 2017

    Media - Watched

    Elegant Yokai Apartment Life

    I ended up watching 8 episodes of this show. The first four were so oddly paced, the MC does strange things, things don't follow the normal genre tropes. And with all that it's just so...generic?

    I will probably watch more of this.

    Time Spent: 2 hours 20 minutes


    October 11, 2017

    Programming - London Trip Scrapbook

    Writing Up My Travel Journal

    When I was going through my closet for moving I found my shoebox full of London things I had kept. I had always wanted to make a scrapbook with the things but I was terrible at finishing scrapbooks and then you had to actually physically hold the scrapbook to look at it so why not create a digital one!

    I have not figured out where this project will live or how exactly I will do it but my first step is writing up my journal I kept of my London and Paris trip in 2003. I'm five pages in so far and it has involved a lot of wandering and being lost. I want to figure out the path we took and take pictures of all the random stuff I have saved, in the end creating some fun scrollytelling/data story webpage

    Time Spent: 17 minutes


    October 9, 2017

    Cosplay - Dreadblades

    Too Many Mats

    So those mats I bought because I didn't have enough? I had enough. I had two pieces left from the original four! I only used two pieces to create 90% of two dreadblades! So now I have too many mat mats!

    With the new mats though, I traced out the pattern for four inner gold raised sections. I was able to get them all from one mat with a 1/4ish of the mat left over. I did not learn my sharpie lesson though and forgot to let the marker dry. Blue hands it was!

    Time Spent: 42 minutes


    October 8, 2017

    Media - Watched

    Made in Abyss

    Tags: Anime

    12 episodes, the last one was 40 minutes long and I didn't even notice. My god, the world building was great! Characters likeable and great, animation beautiful and unique with the different styles for the creatures in the world. And the gore D: and Mitty D:

    Time Spent: 9 hours


    October 7, 2017

    Cosplay - Dreadblades

    New Mats Smell

    Tags: Foam

    I opened my new mats to cut out the pieces for the second Dreadblade and the gold pieces and THEY SMELLED SO BAD, so they went outside for a couple of hours. The fumes seem to have disappated so cutting them tomorrow!

    Time Spent: 6 minutes


    October 5, 2017

    Cosplay - Dreadblades

    The Mats are Mats

    Tags: Foam

    Had some unplanned free time today as tutoring ended early, Harbor Frieght was nearby so I stopped to get some more mats for my sword! With the four original squares I had bought I was able to make about 90% of a Dreadblade so I purchased two more, one for the other sword and then one more for finishing off the pices + hilt mats

    I couldn't find any relevant coupons but the mats were $9 a piece which isn't bad at all. There were a TON of people there for almost 1pm on a Thursday though!

    Time Spent: 16 minutes


    October 1, 2017

    Cosplay - Dreadblades

    Foam testing and bending Pvc!

    Tags: Foam

    what happens with html?

    Cut the foam out for the gold layer to check on the thickness, it looks like it will work well! I will probaby need to figure out some way to uniformly taper everything -> need to investigate that

    For the PVC structure/removeable handle, the hole in the sword prevented it from going straight through. Trevor suggested bending it and with my heat gun and a few minutes I was able to easily bend the PVC! And it stayed their nicely. Eman suggested flattening it to make it thinner and stronger, that will be the next step!

    Time Spent: 1 hours 57 minutes


    July 16, 2017

    Collections - rocks

    Syracuse Gem and Mineral Show Haul

    Time Spent: 5 hours


    May 19, 2017

    Programming - Travel Site

    Status

    I downloaded a CRUD template and was using that to build out the site. It's been so long though should probably just remake the same pattern I've been using.

    Time Spent: 1 hours


    March 25, 2018

    Media - Listened

    The Dollop Episode 221 - Oregon and the Ku Klux Klan

    It's weird to hear about Catholics being targeted by the KKK. Also come on Oregon.

    Time Spent: 11 months 30 days 23 hours


    September 17, 2016

    Collections - rocks

    Denver Gem and Mineral Show 2016

    Time Spent: 7 hours


    May 30, 2014

    Writing - Mariworld

    Map

    Original made on google maps, maybe move this to GeoJSON and build all the countries?
    Cities:

    Destroyed:

    Time Spent: 9 days 23 hours


    April 13, 2018

    Math - Square Roots

    Find the Roots

    Solve using the Square Root Method

    1. x2 - 10 = 0
    2. x2 - 147 = 0
    3. 2z2 - 20 = 0
    4. x2 + 169 = 0
    5. x2 - 21 = 0
    6. 3x2 + 60 = 0
    7. (9x - 5)2 = -64
    8. (z + 8)2 = 5

    Solve using completing the square

    1. x2 + 10x = -21
    2. x2 + 6x + 4 = 0
    3. x2 + 7x - 3 = 0
    4. x2 + 2x - 1 = 0
    5. y2 + 5y - 1 = 0
    6. x2 + 4x + 2 = 0
    7. y2 + 2y + 5 = 0

    Time Spent: 4 years


    October 12, 2013

    Media - Watched (Let's Plays)

    Ryse Son of Rome

    Watched Jesse play this, it's the one where it would slow mo upon enemy death and then you could dismember them

    Time Spent: 2 months


    December 28, 2011

    Collections - Geneology

    Genealogy Project

    Before I knew about PHP frameworks, probably could be rebuilt a lot easier in databases. Getting all the local gravestones might be a reasonable challenge?

    Time Spent: 1 hours


    October 3, 2017

    Programming - General

    Macbook Dependant

    My Macbook's keyboard deicded to all the way break on Tuesday night and I realized just HOW much time I spent on it. Working on projects, writing, reading, wasting reddit time, all on the Macbook! Even when I took breaks from my phone in Japan and NY I STILL had the Macbook there.

    It's still mostly useable with an external keyboard and wireless mouse but I'm about to not have it at all for two days, What will I do???? Can I handle it???? I should be able to, being so depedant on one object I can break easily is not good.



    December 31, 1969

    Media - Listened

    The Dollop Episode 217 - Edmund and the Holy Rollers

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roller
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Creffield

    Just made me think of the Spoon song Inside Out. I don't make time for Holy Rollers.



    December 31, 1969

    Media - Listened

    The Dollop Episode 218 - The Donora Smog Disaster

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Donora_smog

    Humans don't cause any climate issues! Or global warming! It's just natural!



    December 31, 1969

    Media - Listened

    The Dollop Episode 219 - The Terror of 1741

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Conspiracy_of_1741